I gots me own domain name!
There have been quite a few changes in this new year, which I am happy of. I will be changing a whole lot of things around here. Super happy fun!!!!!!!
Resolutions:
– Buy more shoes.
– Take a vacation.
– Publish something, anything.
– Get a cell phone.
I spent New Years in San Francisco and had a blast. I’m an LA boy so it was quite breathtaking going to clothing stores in the midst of skyscapers. One of these days I will make it to New York.
Work!
Here are some more albums that I completely forgot about while doing this Top Ten list thingee.
Milemarker — Frigid Forms Sell
Sound of Water — St. Etienne
The Best of… — Blur
I’m realizing more and more that I’m starting to burn out. A vacation would sound nice right about now. I’m just tired of work, friends, my apartment, etc. Going away sounds really nice. I can probably become a better person at the end of it. I don’t know. Just someone let me out!!!
I’m a sucker for lists. So here’s my Top Ten list:
1. Kid A — Radiohead
2. One Mississippi — J Church
3. The Fifth Release from Matador — Pizzicato 5
4. Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea — PJ Harvey
5. NYC Ghosts and Flowers — Sonic Youth
6. March to Fuzz — Mudhoney (no original songs, I know, but still good to listen to)
7. Suzuki — Tosca
8. Earth Odyssey — The Get Hustle
9. Music — Madonna
10. Breakup of the Smashing Pumpkins. It’s about fucking time!
I think I can conjure the tracklist for the CD I burned last night.
1. Where Is My Mind? – Nada Surf (I know. I don’t like them either, but it’s actually pretty decent.)
2. Sugar Water (remix by Mike D, Russell Simmons and Yuka Honda) – Cibo Matto
3. Coffee and TV (live) – Blur
4. Baby One More Time – Travis (a hilarious cover. I truly enjoyed it.)
5. Dancing the Manta Ray – Pixies (They like manta rays.)
6. Novocaine (live on some radio show) – the eels
7. C’Mon Billy (live on World Cafe) – PJ Harvey
8. The National Anthem (live on SNL) – Radiohead
9. Beercan (live) – Beck
10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Barbie Dolls – Pizzicato 5 (I just love this one way too much)
11. Touch Me I’m Sick – Sonic Youth (from the infamous split single with Mudhoney)
12. Manta Ray – Man or Astroman?
13. My Black Ass (live) – Shellac (I’m going to see them next month!!!!!)
14. Slunk (live) – Smashing Pumpkins
15. Two Beats Off (live) – Fugazi
16. Anisette (live) – June of 44
I like this CD a whole lot.
I know it’s been a long time. I’ve been busy exploring my bourgeoisie tastes in Santa Barbara. I’ve been working like a dog and been more or less catankerous for the last month or so. Other than that, nothing much has been happening. I’ve also been taking care of my apartment which has been left in a state of disrepair due to my longing for my roommate to pick up his finger (I have since given up and have cleaned parts of it regularly).
Plans: redesign of this site so that it will be less painful for me when I do updates. A writing project that involves humor, fiction, autobiography and pornography. Nothing too bad, nothing too good. It’ll be an attempt to say the least.
And one more thing: I am over drugs. Did acid for the last time a couple of weekends ago (exactly 3 years after I did acid for the first time, which was my first drug). So there. Now I have red wine and Godiva chocolate. Mmmmm….
To this day, I get a bit teary eyed when I hear about Kurt’s suicide. It’s been over 6 years, but it has that sting that is quite hard to get over. But shit, I can remember wher I was when I found out. It’s quite upsetting in a way I suppose.
I watched the MTV VMAs on Thursday. I don’t understand them at all. The performers all did medleys (with the exception of the Chili Peppers); I was waiting for Judy Garland’s ghost (no, not Liza Minelli) to appear in the rafters. Funny thing is I had no opinions about any of the nominees so there was no disappointment (as opposed to last year when I was hoping that UNKLE would get the Best Breakthrough Video award; Fatboy Slim got it instead). Ahhh mediocrity. It’s so so very.
Just when you thought I was done updating, I’m going to be redesigning this again. I’m really not happy with the layout nor the content. I think the only thing that’s staying is this blog. Don’t expect for too much. Go to grammatron.com for some content-type stuff. It’s quite old, but the work there is still relevant to literary criticism, art, the novel, etc. Yeah it’s pretentious, but oh well. It’s quite funny at times too.
Pizzicato-mania!!!!!
I’m at a friend’s house currently burning a copy of a “best of” Pizzicato 5 CD. The ultimate in cheese and other assorted niceties in life. It’s great singing along with them in Japanese even though I have no idea what the hell they are saying. It makes me wonder when a Korean pop band will get big so I can understand what the hell they are saying.
On a lighter note, it looks like I’m getting a friend to replace my coworker. It will be a bit of a pain, but in the end it’ll work out (hopefully).
My coworker quit. I’m doing her job on top of mine. I just got an 11% raise. I had Japanese food last night. I’m eating a bagel right now. So life is both harsh and good at the same time. It’s funny how I can live with all of that now.
As you can tell, this is a new design. You might have to up the brightness a bit on your screen in order to view it. I’ve had no problems at home so there.